Improvement in apparatus for tagging lacings



UNITED STATES Pnfrinnr OFFICE.

FREDERICK J. SEYMOUR, OF -WOLGOTTVILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT |N- APPARATUS Foa 4I'AccslNcs LACINGs.

Specification forming pa'rt of Letters Patent No. 412,798, dated May 17,1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. SEY- Ln OUR, of Wolcottville, in thecounty of Litch# field and State of Connecticut, have invented, made,and applied to use a certain new and useful Machine for Tagging Lacesfor Shoes, 85e.; and I-do hereby declare 'the followin g to be a full,clear, -a-nd exact `description of my said invention, reference beinghad to the annexed drawings, making part of thisspeciiication, whereinlFigure 1 is a plan of my said machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectionofthe same at the center of the machine. Fig. 3 is an elevation of partct' 'the machine'with 4a portionof the hed j in section, and Fig. 4' isa plan representing the dies that compress the 'piece of sheet metalforming the tag. I

The object ot'm'y machine is'to take braided, woven, or other charactersof laces for shoes, corsets, 85e., and wrap around the same, at certaindistances apart, pieces of thin sheet metal to form tags or double tags,to be afterward separated by any suitable cutter to form the laces.-

The general operations performed in tagging the braid are as follows:The braid is drawn alo'nga given distance. Apiece of sheet metal ispassed beneath the braid and cut oif.

of metal into a groove, bending the piece of sheet-'metal into a U shapewith the braid within it. .One ofthe sides of said strip isncxt. turnedover-the braid and pressed thereto by said die, after which the otherside isturned over and similarly pressed, as .illustrated A-in largesizein Figs. 5,-6,`and 7. 'The tag or double tag now being complete, 4the.braid is raised with the tag from the groove and drawn -along-the. nextlength. The sheet metal is passed infas before, and cut oft', while thepressing-die remains stationary, and then the next tag is compressed andwrapped to its place, as before, f

In the drawings, a is a shaft driven by coinpetent. power and sustainedin the bearing a on ih'e frame. Ir. The red line c represents thebraidor lace to bctagged passing through guides d d on thesecondary'be." e. l

fand g arc gears communicating a contnuous rotarymotion to the.cam-shaft h in bearings It' on'b, The sha-fth is to revolve at the Asame speed as the shaft a, and hence the cams carried by said shaftrevolvel once each com-V plete movement of. the'machine. 4

o is a vertical slide pressing-die actuated by' thefpitman n',connecting with a crank-pin ou `the disk a on the endof the shaft Vl,these gaats being sustained by the arm m from' the et A At the'end oftheshaft l isa pinion, k, gearing with a wheel, t', on the shaft a. Thiswheel is to be six times the diameter ofthe pinion k', and theteeth onone-half et' said wheel are removed, so that the pinion 7c is .rotatedthree ytimes while the wheel i is making a half-revolution, giving acorresponding, number of -re.

ciprocations to 'the pressing-diep, and'thcn said parts remainstationary while'thesaid 4 teeth of t'` pass clear ot the pinion k, andthis bolt 16 is withdrawn; just before the half-eir- 'cle of teeth ou treach the. pinion, by means-of the lever n2 on a fulcrum, 15,'acted onby thecam s' onthe shaft h. Adic comes down andforces the lace and piecep is a wheel on the. shaft ,gearing to the wheel p on the shaftV q inboxes q' orb. The wheelp is twice the size of the wheel p', but hasteeth only half-way around its periphery; hence .the shaft q will make acompleterota tion during half the rotationof a, and remain quiescentduring tlre other half-'rotation of a.

In order to. prevent the momentum of the shaft 1V and parts attachedmoving said parts after the gears p p p ass out of contact, I provide anarm, g2 extending downward, as shown by dotted lines inFig.- 1, and thisarm, as the gears separate, comes up against a stop', 19, having pressedback a spring-latch, 18, that springing over the other side of saidarinretains it in place until thestop 19 is withdrawn by the4 lever q,fulcrumed on the bede, and acted upon by the cani s2, just before thegear p takes the wheel p', as before. A spring, 27,'nioves-the lever g"-and stop 19` back to place as the cam .v2 clears the-end of the lever.

At .the end of the shaft q is a disl:,1, earrying -iu its periphery apin.; that, whenthe .machine is, at rest, is contiguous to 'the end ofan; inclined groove in the wheel 2 on the shaft '3,1m bearlngs'l, whichcommunicates bygear- Wheels 5 with'the*feeding-rollers 7 and 6in" thestandards 8, which rollers pass thethin strip of sheet metalalougbctvv'eeu the plates` r', to be cut 'cand form the ta g, ashereinafter described. j lt-will-be'sen that as soon as the shaftqcommences toiurmthepinin l ,passing across the wheel 2 4 in the diagonalgroove .thereof', givesthe necessary movement'to the rollers ,to feedinthe strip of material, and'if a wider strip of material isf-required`for the tag the wheel 2 .can be removed and another vsubstituted having-a less'n'u'mber of grooves and a greater angle to each or a smallerfeed Vennbe .obtained by-'a wheel2 with a larger number otlgrooves andeach at a less angle.

' The strip of sheet metal, when i'ed in, is held to a. bedshear, 10, bya clamping lever, l9,-

ac'ted upon by a cam, s, on h, while a suitable cutter separates the'piece of metal' to form the tag. l have represented a-circularrollingshear, l1, on'a carrage,'12, that at thep'ropcrmoment isrolled''across the strip of.

metal and then drawn back by the action- -of the eccentric 144 andconnectingrod 13. These operations of feeding' in' the strip ot' sheetmetal, clamping, cutting-oli' the end for the tag, 'and drawing back.the cutter 1.1, take place while the pressing-die o'i's elevated andstationary; then the gearft rotates the pinion4 7.', and the die ocarries ythe center ofthe strip Voi? niet'al or tag-blank down intoa'g'roove in the 'block e' on the bed, P', forminggthe same into a Ushape with the lace' or braid within 'the same, for 'the braid chad beenraised above the tag-blank, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3,lby the' eyes 2020, at the ends of the groove in e',

actuated by the lever t, on the'fulcrum-t, receiving motion from thelever t2 on the t'ulcrum 21, that is acted upon by the cam sa. This cams3 ,clears the end ofthe lever t2 as the die o tirst descends, and thespring tadraws down 4said eyes 20, causing Vthe lace or braid to 'remainin the Ushaped tilg-V blank When pressed down by the die o. .As

' the die o rises, a fold11gslide,'22, in the block e.,'"acted upon bythe lever u. on the fulcrumw, noved by the cam projection 25 on s',comes up vland folds one sidel of the-taglblank over the braid, as inFig. 6. The die o- 'now descends the second time, presses that .to itsplace, and as it risesthc foldiugsldc23 on the opposite side, acted onby the lever u onthe f'ulcrum"l moved by thc camprojection 26 on s',comes up `and folds the' other side ot the tag=blank over thc first, as-seleu in Fig. .7, and the die o de'scendsthe third time, pressing-thctag firmly together, thus making a perfect metallic tag yor doubletag around the braid. The eyes 20 20 are now raised by s.-lil'ting thetag and braid out ofthe groove( in c', thc lace or' braid is drawn alongthere. quired\ distancc, by suitable mechanism, and

the operations proceed as before.

The foldin gsld'es are d rawn'buck by a spring, 30,'bet'vyeen'the leversu and u', and L prefer to makethe ends of the'slides 23 and 22 themselves of separate pieces, notched ntothe slides, as' shownso as to moveback and forth with said slides, but pressed down by the at 'springs24,' so that the end of each slide may yield and slightly rise .over thetag-blank'in tplding itdown ,upon thebraid, should that braid be thick,and the folding-slides hence do 'jaw c', and this jaw'u' is acteduponvby an' arm, 28, to the cam 29 onithe side of s2, so as 4to holdthebraid rmly and prevent its being drawn along while the tag lis beingput on,-

but releasethesame bytheactiou of the 4spr'ig27 `when each-tag iscompleted, sothat the next length ot braid can beA drawn along. The'means for drawing along and Vmeasuring ott' the braid to determine thedistance between one tagand the next do not form any part -of myinvention. I have, however, shown such a device,.consisting ofth'cgrooved wheelv p/,whose circumference-1s. to' correspond to.

length of each lac'e. This wheel y is on a shaft, y', with a gear, y, todgear, g3, on the shaft q, so ,that when this shat'tq makes a revfelution (the ja'ws c u being-open) the wheel y i turns and drawstheflaceror braid'along.

The tagged braid is Wound upona reel or spool, z, Aon a shaft, z', :withal pulley, z2, -and, belt z?, to a pulley, z, on a. 1t will beunderstood that the belt z slips on its pulleys when the lace or braidis being tagged and lis stationary. 4The reel z might .be looseupon its.`sha-ft and a friction disk or spring applied to its side to produce therotation or tofallowthjeA -reel to remain stationary while. the shaftcontinues its revolution. I

Y The wheel y may ne changeable, so as to provide for different lengthsof lace by varying thesizc ofyvheel employed.'

l What I cla-im, and desire to secure by Let-v ters Patent, is

-1 1. 'Bending the tag-blank into aU ferns-and then folding over theedges successively, sub- A stantially as' specified. l

' 2. The compressing-die o, actuated substantially as and forthepurposesspecitied.

3. The, folding-slides 23 and 22', constructed and actuatedsubstantially as and for the purposes specified. l. l 4.. (.loutrollin,the intermitted rotation of. Vthe shaft q by the stop 19, arm q, andlever;

q, substantially as spccited.

' 5. Actuating tbe feeding-rollers G and 7 by 8. The holding-jaws v v',actua-ted substanthe wheel 2, with inclined grooves taking the tially asspecied, to clamp the braid while pin onthe disk 1, substantially asspecified. the tag is beingput on the same, as set forth.

6. The clamping-lever 9 and cutter, applied Dated this 11th day ofJanuary, A. D. 1864. and operatinffsubstantially as specified to'out 1 1ofi' the tagblaank, as set forth. FREDERICK I SLYMQUR' v 7. Theguide-eyes 20, actuated substan- Witnesses: tlaliy as specied,to1ift ordepress the tag-- G W. CLARK, braid, for the purposes set forth. J. F.'CALHOUN.

